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October 21, 2013

Update 25/10/13: The Turitea workshops are now full and a waiting list is in operation. Albany and Wellington still have vacancies. If you’re an academic staff member or a postgraduate research student, we invite you to enrol in the Knowledge Management in Research (KMIR) series. This series comprises four free two-hour workshops offered by the Library at all campuses. We’ll show you how to locate and manage a range of information sources, connect with and explore your research community, get ideas for your publishing strategy and monitor the impact of your research. Want to learn more? Take a look at the learning objectives for each of the four workshops and enrol online.  Please note, you can attend all four workshops in the...Read more

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Kupu o te wiki

October 21, 2013

Kupu o te Wiki, or Word of the Week, is brought to you by the Library’s Māori Staff. The word this week is: Peita (pay-tah) or paint I love to peita!  ...Read more

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Māori book award winners announced

October 18, 2013

  The winners of Massey University’s fifth annual Ngā Kupu Ora Aotearoa Māori Book Awards have been announced. The awards ceremony will be held at Te Wharewaka o Poneke function centre in Wellington on November 7. All of the books...Read more

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October/November Hours

October 15, 2013

The usual Library hours will vary over October and November: Labour Day Monday 28 October:  10 a.m. – 8 p.m. Exam period extended hours Fridays 25 October, 1 & 8 November: 8 a.m. – 10 p.m. Summer School hours Tuesday 12 November...Read more

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Kupu o te wiki

October 14, 2013

Kupu o te Wiki, or Word of the Week, is brought to you by the Library’s Māori Staff. The word this week is: Māharahara (maah-ha-rah-ha-rah) or worry / anxious Even though I study well, I still get a bit māharahara just before my exams...Read more

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I recommend… Google Scholar

October 10, 2013

This week Librarians Nicola Harris and Megan Ingle, from Turitea Library, recommend one of their favourite resources… We recommend Google Scholar for anyone – from undergraduate to postgraduate students, and staff. We like it because...Read more

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‘OR’ searching in Discover

October 7, 2013

If you use OR searching in Discover (or other EBSCOhost databases) to look for alternative terms, there are a couple of things you should know… The OR should always be in capital letters, or your search results will be skewed. For example...Read more

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Kupu o te wiki

October 7, 2013

Kupu o te Wiki, or Word of the Week, is brought to you by the Library’s Māori Staff. The word this week is: awhi (are-fee)  or support/help I am going to awhi my sister by going to watch her netball game this weekend...Read more

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US Government shut-down affects some databases

October 7, 2013

Some databases have been affected by the US Government shut-down. The ones we have noticed are ERIC and PubMed, but there may be others. If you encounter this in a database, there should be a message explaining the extent to which it is affected...Read more

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Impact Factors, Eigenfactors, SNIPS and Other Partial Measures

October 4, 2013

Zombie bibliometrics There are three common misconceptions about journals and research evaluation that don’t seem to want to die, no matter how often angry mobs shoot at them with silver bullets or drive a stake through their hearts. Like many...Read more

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